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Hunter Pence has the "X factor" -- that quality in big league players, or any guy trying to make it to the top.

A year to the day after throwing the 22nd perfect game in baseball history, the San Francisco Giants ace didn't give up a hit through four innings on Thursday night against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

One of the popular debates among sports fans is how one player gets all this attention while another player is forgotten even though that player is having a much better year.

"No wonder I'm tired. It's the 3rd inning, my pitch count is at 78, and the team is giving me 4 minutes between innings to rest!" Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports How they have been figured out is another question altogether.

His opportunity was supposed to come last July, when the Phillies traded away two All-Star outfielders, but he didn't truly get his first chance to be an everyday major league player until April.

If you haven't heard about the recent tear Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Domonic Brown has been on, then you are missing out on this young player's rise to stardom.

The latest N.L. results were announced earlier this evening on ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" prior to its Sunday Night Baseball telecast.

Buster Posey belted a two-run homer and knocked in three runs to back five-plus innings from Madison Bumgarner, as the San Francisco Giants took a 10-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

If it seems like it's been a few years since the Philadelphia Phillies had a first-round draft pick, well, that's because it has.

When you hardly ever go a day without doing something that makes a stadium filled with people gasp, the honors tend to come rushing as quickly as Domonic Brown's home runs have been leaving the field.

The guy has done a lot of stupid stuff. He's made a lot of bonehead decisions. But the one decision he did is the one that will likely define him, and for that, I have to say thank you.

The Phillies have less than two months to get on a roll or the front office could make significant changes to the club's 25-man roster.

If you want your team to do whatever it takes to win championships when it has a chance, you have to be prepared to suffer on the back end when the window closes.

Whether it is constantly booting balls hit to them, dropping high pops or throwing the ball nowhere close to where it was intended to go, some players just don't have what it takes to play a position on a regular basis.

IT WAS 4 hours before game time at Citizens Bank Park when the hallway that leads from the home clubhouse to the dugout was empty and fairly quiet, too.

While the major league club wallows in the basement of the American League Western Division, the Houston Astros have rapidly improved a farm system that was bone-dry four years ago.

Derek Norris hit a two-run homer in the second, Jarrod Parker pitched seven strong innings and the Athletics beat the Giants for their fifth straight victory.

After years of being "one player away," the Philadelphia Phillies are now much further than that from contending for a championship.

Astros top prospect Jonathan Singleton will begin his season Tuesday for Class A Quad Cities against Kane County after missing the first 50 games of the season for violating the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program for a drug of abuse -- his second positive test.

The Philadelphia Phillies are no longer a dominant team. That's an undeniable fact.